Viy. After

Viy. After

  Viy is a dark spirit from the vernacular epic. This is the name given by the Rosses, Ukrainians or Little Russians to a large dwarf, whose eyes shine and dazzle in the dark. This whole story is the legend of the Bursaks, seminarians and priests who faced Lucifer's spirits, and fought evil with faith in the Lord....


Seven years have passed since the church with the witch panochka was boarded up. The villagers of the farm avoided the place overgrown with grass and shrubs. The Little Russians of the farm knew this place in the valley, surrounded by beeches and oaks, they knew what happened then in those three nights.

   At that time, Freebie and Gorobets served in the Kiev church in the rank of deacons. One day after the service, Gorobets started talking about Homa Brutus.
 
  - Homa b was also a deacon, and then an archpriest, and then a metropolitan.
 
  - It is also necessary to rise to the metropolitan, and Homa smoked a cradle and laid a gorilka, he would not have reached the archpriest, Gorobets said.
 
  - Hear a freebie, but let's go to this farm, it's not far from Kiev.
 
  - And why?

- Let's hold a service in that very church, look at the place where our comrade Homa Brutus spent three nights.
 
  - It's March, it's cold, but in May we can.
 
  - Then in May.
 
  May has come, Little Russia has turned green, after a snowless winter. Gorobets and Freebie filled a brick with flour, breadcrumbs, candles, spiritual books and set off from Kiev to that sinister farm.
 
  It took two hours on the road, and the Freebie said
 
  - May is cool, but what is it over there?

-This is a shinok, a local cholera jew has been holding it for 20 years, the cabman replied.
 
  - In the Jews, like Mikola, they do not plow in the field, but sell vodka, they are brewed. And what kind of vodka is there?

- A burda burda, a Jew's stench would go to hard labor for such a mess, but they drink, and they drink it, and it's cheaper than in other tires.
 
  Having stopped at this shop, Freebie, took off his cassock and skipped,
 
  - Hey, damn Jew, did you pour vodka?

A gray-haired and small Jew came out of a shink, a dilapidated hut.
 
  - Of course, I poured it, and I poured it on the way.
 
  - Will you exchange a gorilla for a bag of flour?

- I will exchange, gentlemen, I will exchange.
 
  - Look at the filthy Jews, if your vodka is a mess, we'll burn the tires.
 
  - Gentlemen, this gorilla is not a mess, like the gorilla of other damned Judas, Jews in their tires.
 
  - Touch it.
 
  Gorobets and Freebie set off, there were not many miles left to the farm. The Little Russian plain was changed by hills and hollows, lakes where raguli fished.
 
  By evening we reached the farm. The farm was small, no more than a hundred villagers. Freebie and Gorobets were met by several lads and taken to the centurion. The centurion was already different, a bald crest, with a forelock and a mustache hanging down to his shoulders, and the old one went to Russia.
 
  - With Christ, what did you come to us with?

-With Christ, we are clerks from Kiev, you have heard about Homa Brutus, we studied with him in Bursa, Gorobets replied.
 
  - Homa Brutus, Homa Brutus. Yes, it's the one with the witch in our abandoned church.
 
  - That's the one.
 
  - You know, we boarded up this church, we wanted to burn it down and build a new one, but we left it, we left it because the old church was built when this farm was inhabited. But there was such a thing, and after the third night no one dared to go beyond the threshold.
 
  - We brought you flour, candles and spiritual books, and for what we came from Kiev so far, we want to serve the night in the church.
 
  - Well, I dare not refuse, if there were commoners, then I would refuse, but you are in cassocks from Kiev, from the church, I will punish our lads to chop off the boards, and while the cooks cook borscht, go to the yard.
 
  By lunchtime the next day, the villagers broke off the boards, opened the door of the church, but did not dare to step, knowing what was there. They called the centurion, Gorobets and Freebies.
 
  - Well, we will open it, Ali is not necessary, the unclean is there.
 
  - As long as the day and God's light shines over the earth, then no evil spirit will stay here, open up, said the Mountaineer.
 
  An ancient door was opened. Coolness and dust wafted out of the darkness.
  The church was cleaned, candles were put on, and the villagers brought tulips and poppies. The church shone as if services were held in it every day. It was evening, the table was set in the courtyard of the woman in honor of the arrival of the Mountaineer and Freebies. Dumplings with potatoes and bacon were cooked, piglet, chicken and fish were fried. After tasting the Little Russian dishes and washing them down with vodka, deacons Khalyava and Gorobets crossed themselves and wandered to the church.
 
  The ancient church was cast in a crimson sunset.
 
  - Is it not scary to spend the night here for free?
 
  - Homa was scared, he was alone and could not cope with evil spirits, Gorobets and I would not climb alone, knowing that there was no unknown panochka, but a damn witch.
 
  - Yes, I should have called someone from the church.
 
  The door was opened, candles were lit, the smell of incense filled the church.
 
  Gorobets began to say prayers against the unclean.
 
  -O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, protect me with Your holy angels and with the prayers of our All-holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, by the Power of the Honest and Life-giving Cross, the holy Archangel of God Michael and other Heavenly bodiless powers; the holy Prophet and Forerunner of the Baptist of the Lord John; the holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian and all Your saints, help me To your unworthy servant Tiberius, deliver me from all the slanders of the enemy, from all witchcraft, sorcery, sorcery and from evil people, so that they may not be able to do me any harm. O Lord, preserve me by the light of Your radiance for the morning, for the afternoon, for the evening, for the coming night, and by the power of Your Grace turn away and remove all evil wickedness, acting at the instigation of the devil. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
 
  As soon as Deacon Tiberius Gorobets finished reading the prayer, the altar cross lying on the edge of the throne fell from the throne near which he was standing with a freebie.
 
  - I've seen a freebie, it's unclean.
 
  - Unclean
 
  Then, in the corner where panochka was lying in a shroud, female moans

were heard -What is this Gorobets??
 
  - The witch is moaning like a witch, it's a witch. Did you take the consecrated water?

- Yes.
 
  - Sprinkle the witch with it and Homa.
 
  As soon as the Freebie sprinkled Homa and the witch with water, the witch in the shroud stirred and stood up. Freebie dumbfoundedly bounced off the witch. Gorobets and Freebie looked at the witch who was looking at them.
 
  "Viy, viy, viy, viy," the witch whispered.
 
  Creepy red eyes hung over the witch, staring intently in the direction of Freebies and Gorobets.
 
  "A demon," whispered Gorobets.
 
  - Let's get out of here, let's get out.
 
  Horribly, Gorobets and Freebie left the church in the middle of the night. They came to the courtyard, where the centurion was sleeping on a bench by the table, having drunk a glass of vodka. When he woke up, he asked -
 
  - Well, sho there, sho there bulo sho there once in the middle of the night came

-It was, centurion, we won't lie, we can three of us come back, you'll see for yourself, sho there.
 
  - No, I never went there at night, I was once near the church and heard terrible noises there.
 
  - In the morning, all the utensils, icons, crosses, lamps should be taken out of the church and burned.
 
  - Burn it, but it's blasphemy, God will punish you for it, and the church is old, it was built by the ancestors.
 
  - The centurion is evil there, and the witch will come there at night, we will burn her and her soul will leave this farm, and you will start building a new church in the summer further from that place.
 
  - Well, if it's necessary, then it's necessary.
 
  In the morning, the boys took everything out of the church, leaving only Homa and the witch in a shroud there, surrounded with birch bark and set on fire. The church burned with a bright and huge flame until lunch, by evening there was only a charred mound on the site of Tom. Gorobets and Freebie went to Kiev that evening.
 
  - If there really is an unclean thing, everything that was seen there, then this further strengthens faith in God, otherwise they used to doubt that there is no God, that there is nothing in that world, but all this is there, and evil, and hell, and demons, and dark and light spirits, both heaven and God.
 
  - Yes, Gorobets, no one will believe our seminarians in Kiev, the metropolitan, and the deacons.
 
  - It's a long way to Kiev, Freebie asked the driver.
 
  - Not far away.